Mutanen Sin sun saba da kiran 1 ga Janairu kowace shekara a matsayin "Ranar Sabuwar Shekara." Ta yaya kalmar "Ranar Sabuwar Shekara" ta samo asali?
Kalmar "Ranar Sabuwar Shekara" "samfurin asali" ne a tsohuwar ƙasar Sin. China ta daɗe tana amfani da al'adar "Nian".
Kowace shekara, 1 ga Janairu ita ce Ranar Sabuwar Shekara, wadda ita ce farkon Sabuwar Shekara. "Ranar Sabuwar Shekara" kalma ce mai hadewa. Idan aka yi la'akari da kalma ɗaya, "Yuan" na nufin farko ko farko.
Asalin ma'anar kalmar "Dan" ita ce wayewar gari ko safiya. Ƙasarmu tana tono kayan tarihi na al'adun Dawenku, kuma ta sami hoton rana tana fitowa daga saman dutsen, tare da hazo a tsakiya. Bayan binciken rubutu, wannan ita ce hanya mafi tsufa ta rubuta "Dan" a ƙasarmu. Daga baya, haruffan "Dan" masu sauƙi sun bayyana a rubuce-rubucen tagulla na daular Yin da Shang.
"Ranar Sabuwar Shekara" da aka ambata a yau ita ce taron farko na taron ba da shawara kan harkokin siyasa na jama'ar kasar Sin a ranar 27 ga Satumba, 1949. Yayin da take yanke shawarar kafa Jamhuriyar Jama'ar kasar Sin, ta kuma yanke shawarar daukar tsarin lokaci na AD na duniya da kuma sauya kalandar Gregorian.
An sanya ta a hukumance a matsayin "Ranar Sabuwar Shekara" a ranar 1 ga Janairu, kuma an canza ranar farko ta watan farko na kalandar wata zuwa "Bikin bazara"